External Funding Sources

General Resources to Find Funding

The following are searchable databases of graduate student funding opportunities:

• UCLA Graduate Funding Finder
• Illinois Database of Grants and Fellowships for Graduate Students

The Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program is a great opportunity (students complete part of their dissertation research at a National Lab)

• U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science

Numerous opportunities for graduate funding can also be found through the Thurgood Marshall College Fund:

• Thurgood Marshall College Fund - Open Scholarships
• Thurgood Marshall College Fund - Corporate Scholar Programs              

Specific Funding Opportunities

The specific graduate student funding opportunities below are organized in order of deadline (by month). The deadlines are normally around the same time each year.

January Deadline:

• Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship

• U.S. Department of Energy: Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP) Summer Internship

September Deadline:

• The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program
  March Deadline
• Southern Education Foundation Leadership Initiative

• National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Graduate Fellowship Program (NGFP)
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program

• American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowships
• American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Student Fellowships
• GEM Fellowships
• NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO)
• Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP)
• Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program

• Ford Foundation Fellowships Programs for Achieving Excellence in College and University Teaching

• Hennessy Fellows Program (through Thurgood Marshall College Fund)